<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ANSI_X3.4-1968" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>Chapter 7. Tools</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="MTD NAND Driver Programming Interface" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="MTD NAND Driver Programming Interface" /><link rel="prev" href="filesystems.html" title="Chapter 6. Filesystem support" /><link rel="next" href="defines.html" title="Chapter 8. Constants" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 7. Tools</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="filesystems.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="defines.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 7. Tools"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="tools"></a>Chapter 7. Tools</h2></div></div></div><p> The MTD project provides a couple of helpful tools to handle NAND Flash. </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>flasherase, flasheraseall: Erase and format FLASH partitions</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>nandwrite: write filesystem images to NAND FLASH</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>nanddump: dump the contents of a NAND FLASH partitions</p></li></ul></div><p> </p><p> These tools are aware of the NAND restrictions. Please use those tools instead of complaining about errors which are caused by non NAND aware access methods. </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="filesystems.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="defines.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 6. Filesystem support </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 8. Constants</td></tr></table></div></body></html>